The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1887-05-14
Sales Advertised ip "Tbe Upiop."

Sales advertised iq "Tbe UqiOp."
Monday, May 10th, by Messrs. R. R. Boarman ant
George l.. VanBibber, trustees, tract of lan6
and improvements at Bynum's Station, NJ. G
r. R., Hartford county.
Tuesday, May nth, by Henry Depkin Son, val
Run Station, P. W. & B. R. r.
Wednesday, May 18th, by Jos. S. Hopkins, valua
BILE stock, farm implements, wagons, harness
&C., in Green Spring Valley.
Wednesday, May 18th, by John +. Caskey, exc
cutor, valuable lots of ground and improve
Monday, June 9th, by Chas. E. Wilcox, attorney
valuable leasehold property, on Lennon street
MONDAY. June 9Th. by d. G. Mcintosh, trustee
valuable property, consisting of farms, lime
kilns, quarries, &C., belonging to the late John
o. Price.
County Treasurer Hebb on Thursday com.
menced receiving taxes on the levy of 1887.
The foundation for the new public schoo
house at Calverton was staked off on Monday.
Frederick Slower, of Pikesville, Baltimore
county, has had his name restored to the pension
list.
The May term of the Circuit Court for Bal
timore county convenes on Monday next, lotn
inst.
Mr. VIM. Byerly, of Fowbesburg, 4th dis
trict, had leg broken on Tuesday by log roll
ing upon him.
building a new bridge over Gwynn's falls, on
the Frederick road.
Several horses are now being worked at the
Timonium track, which is rented by Mr.. Chas W.
Lee, of Towsontown.
The Governor has appointed Alexander
Hughs, justice of the peace for the 18th district,
vice James Jones, resigned.
The first strawberries grown in Maryland
this season were scld in Baltimore on Tuesday
They came from Somerset county.
The total rain fall in the vicinity of Balti-
more between Friday of last week and Monday Of
the present week was Ill inches.
Bishop Paret will conduct confirmation ser
vices in Trinity P e. Church, Towsontown, Sun
day morning, May 18th, at IL o'clock.
Mr.. Henry W. Archer, Jr., member Of
the Belair bar, announces himself as a Democratic
candidate for the House of Delegates.
-Litteton D. Davis, of Jacksonville, I'd
district, has lately been granted pension by the
Commissioner of Pensions, Washington.
1t is expected that the second track of the
B. & 0.'s new line between Baltimore and Phila-
delphia will be completed about July LIST.
Charges have been filed with the County
Commissioners against night officer Forsythe, Of
Clifton, Sd district, for derelcton of duty.
The country seat of Mr.. Robert Lawson, on
the Frederick road, was offered at public sale on
Tuesday and was withdrawn bid of $4,000
Mrs. Ridgely, Miss Eliza Ridgely and Miss
Margie Ridgely, of Hampton, left for Atlantic
City on Tuesday and expect to be away about
two weeks.
"A man named Henry Coleman, living on
the Frederick road, was arrested on Wednesday,
charged with committing felonious assault on
his step daughter.
--Jessop's NJ. E. Church, above Cockeysville,
which has lately undergone some improvements,
will he reopened Sunday, May goth, when Bishop
Andrews will preach.
Mrs Richardson, wife of VIM. HI. Richard
son, confined in Jail here went to Annapolis again
on Tuesday, but failed to see either the Governor
or Secretary of State.
Bryan Lindsay, colored, of Patapsco Neck,
18th district, arrested in Baltimore a few
days ago for driving his team over and seriously
injuring little child.
Work on the large frame hotel on Emory
Grove camp ground is being pushed ahead rap
idly and the building will be completed in time
for the coming camp meeting.
-Messrs. Adam D. and Joseph Kelly, sons
of the late Elisha F. Kelly, of the Sth district,
have gone to Salona, Kansas, where they have Sc
cured a contract on new railroad.
Mr.. Chester B. Turnbul, of Baltimore
county, and member of the firm of c. B. Turn
bull & Co., cotton brokers, has been appointed
consul for Greece at the port of Baltimore.
The boss brick-layers in Baltimore have
ordered boycott on Texas lime. This action
grows out of the strike fer higher wages by the
men employed at the quarries and kilns at Texas.
There will be an excursion to Gettysburg,
Pa, on Whit Monday, which occurs on Decoration
Day, May 30th, over the Baltimore and Hanover
railroad. The rates have been fixed at very low
figure.
The attention of the Circuit Court has been
occupied the whole of the past week in trying the
damage case of Adolph Rose VS.. the BALTIC. d
Ohio R. R. Company, and it has notyet been con-
cuded.
Two colored men have been arrested by the
city police charged with burglarizing the residence
of W. Burns Trundle, Esq, on Madison avenue
extended, in this county. They were sent up to
the county Jail.
The Towson Guards did not take part in
the parade of the State militia in Baltimore,
Tuesday afternoon. The Waverly Guards, Capt.
Wardin, and the Bond Guard, Capt. Barnette,
were in the line.
-Towsontown will have the prettiest bank
building of any country town in Maryland, and
that is saying good deal for TowsOntown. Now
let us hear our envious neghbor of the Belair
Democrat shout.
What the old folks call "the snow ball
rain" that is the storm which usually comes about
the time the snow-balls are in full bloom, is now
about due and may be expected, as are told il
rarely if ever misses.
Mount Moriah Lodge of Towsontown took
DdrL IN Ll6 gTanQ hdsOulc pdTduo WulCu IOon
place in Baltimore on Thursday. 1t had ovel
fifty men in line and was one of the largest coun
try lodges in the procession.
ALL the Protestant churches of Highland
town and 0rangeville have united in starting 8
temperance movement in that section of the coun
ty. The chief object is to check the beer-drink
ing habit among the young men.
Mr.. VIM. II. Dozen, the well known attor
ney, lately purchased from the Munnikhuysen es
fofa 81 of land R0nd Relair. fol
which he paid $1,000 per acre. He will at once
commence improving the property.
Miss Alice Hughett, daughter of Mr.. james
W. Hughlett, of Woodbury., died on Monday
night last, aged 10 years. She was a very popu
lar young lady and had a large circle of friends
who are deeply grieved at her death.
The Towsontown water supply project ap
pears to be at stand still. We hope it will mo-
be permitted to fail entirely, as there is nothing
know of that would give the town bigger boost
than the consummation of this scheme.
William Wilson, indicted for killing VIM
Granruth, at Orangeville, Philadelphia road, was
tried in the Baltimore Criminal Court few days
ago and acquitted upon the ground of self de-
tense. The case was removed from Baltimore
county court.
Under the law passed by the last Legisla-
ture licenses do not expire on the LIST of May, a:
formerly. They can be procured at any time and
run for year from date of issue. But it must bt
understood that it is not lawful to conduct bust
ness without license.
Notwithstanding the mud, the Spring meet
ing of the Maryland Jockey Club commenced a
Pimlico on Tuesday. The races during the meet
ing were not particularly good-in fact some o.
them were exceedingly poor-and the attendance
was only moderately large.
$50 far this spring we have had an unusua
number of thunder storms, but no damage has ye
been reported in Baltimore county. In Carroll
however, houses have been struck and the heavy
rains which accompanied the storms did serious
injury to crops in some instances.
Mr.. Robert E. Boyd, who was assistant t
Mr.. Geo. DeHaven, has been appointed passenger
agent of the Pennsylvania Railroad in Baltimore
Mr.. Boyd has many relatives and friends in Bal
timore county. He was for many years chic
clerk of the Baltimore postofice.
Sixteen acres of the property of the late
james L. Sutton, near Homeland station, Mary
land Central railroad, which was sold last week al
public sale, was purchased by wealthy city gen.
tlemen for country club house, and improve
ments costing $4,000 are to be built upon it.
Damage cases against the Baltimore d
Ohio Railroad Company have lately been occupy
ing much of the time of the Baltimore county
Circuit Court. While these cases are on trial the
Company has detective here every day and his
presence has excited good deal of speculation.
Mr.. c. J. East, of the I'd district, was in
Towsontown on Wednesday and called at THF
UNION Office to renew his subscription. He is q